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by Tloewald 12y ago
I'm happy -- well, not incensed -- to get ads that are well-implemented. I'm paying $4/month and purposely chose not to get a physical copy (which was offered for free). It's depressing if I'm not covering their cos
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by Tloewald 12y ago
You're assuming the mortgage was for $240k (e.g. they may have paid $240k then pulled out equity on an inflated valuation -- a lot of people did this, although it was a silly thing to do) and that the interest rate was _very_ low (inte
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by Tloewald 12y ago
I was hoping to see scans of the actual silicon, but I guess that requires more exotic equipment. It seems to me that imaging the chips would be easier and better using a DSLR and a good macro lens.
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by Tloewald 12y ago
The quoted lines do not state that the mortgage became exorbitant because the value of the price dropped -- you're reading that into it. On the other hand, a lot of people bought houses on 3-5 year fixed interest mortgages during the h
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Off-topic: as a paying newyorker.com subscriber I resent the fact that the New Yorker uses page-covering video ads, and I resent the fact that they're incompetently implemented even more (they're borked on mobile devices that ar
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by Tloewald 12y ago
http://gizmodo.com/the-un-is-ordering-10-000-of-ikeas-brilli... Gizmodo link that worked for me. Looks great. Simple, robust, decent size, solar powered, ventilated, lockable.
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by Tloewald 12y ago
I second "A Brief History" -- it's kind of like Cosmos (the book by Sagan) but more up-to-date and slightly broader. It seems to me that a lot of the suggestions are are people trying to impress each other with what they&#x
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by Tloewald 12y ago
> read stuff by people who aren't like you this.
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by Tloewald 12y ago
We actually do something similar to this to make our application state (within limits) be reflected by the url and support navigation — both good things. The urls are horrible though and we're considering simply storing the state in a
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by Tloewald 12y ago
This is "the car companies". Car companies are largely systems integrators, buying pieces from companies like delphi and putting them in a nice box.
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by Tloewald 12y ago
It's a great book, and does a better job of explaining the origins of personal computing (and time shared systems) than pretty much anything else out there.
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Apple is competing with Samsung on Samsung's terms? If so it's doing a great job.
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Let's have that discussion: what are the US's bottom line requirements to maintain the "Pax Americana"? Do we need Carrier Groups to deal with Somali pirates? Do we need 40,000 people in Germany? (I think everyone will a
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by Tloewald 12y ago
All the stuff we have that we don't want to replace with the F35 was built by governments and large companies
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by Tloewald 12y ago
The basic perversity is building a gigantic military in peacetime because the arms companies have enormous lobbying power. Everything else flows from and is secondary to that.
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Ideas aren't worth much. The real idea that Steve Jobs and Bill Gates had was that personal computers and software were compelling products that would have value to ordinary people. I suggest you read the book "Hackers" by St
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by Tloewald 12y ago
My takeaway is that flash, by itself, doubles your vulnerability and acrobat triples it. Obviously these results alone aren't statistically significant but flash and acrobat have been dire sources of vulnerabilities for over a decade (
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Having no value signals is a lot worse than being sub-optimal. Everything is sub-optimal.
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by Tloewald 12y ago
My espresso machine (which is about five years old) makes good coffee despite not having any of the maintenance you describe. I imagine it would be better if it did, but I'm lazy. When it finally gives up the ghost, I will buy a new on
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The GNU Manifesto Turns Thirty(newyorker.com)
472 points by Tloewald 12y ago|209 comments
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by Tloewald 12y ago
The office coffee geeks had a discussion of coffee-making devices (hardly a panel of experts, so take it for what it's worth) and the consensus is that the best way to make coffee is an espresso machine. This is a pretty neat device, b
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by Tloewald 12y ago
The whole "they'll keep saying the opposite thing anyway" argument is tired. Sure, there have been prominent reversals, but usually behind it is an industry lobby group, not science. There have been studies attempting to show
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Having grown up with Moccona freeze dried coffee in Australia, I would rank it ahead of drip or plunger coffee in most cases, but decent coffee prepared properly using an espresso machine is far ahead. There's just no comparison.
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Caffeine is a surprisingly benign "drug" (especially since it appears to have evolved as a natural insecticide). Personally, I'm not a "fan" of taking vitamins.
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Sounds like as a CS person you've peripherally processed politic science and come up with binary answers to complex ill-posed questions. Academia is not socialism and even communism is not completely lacking in value signals (otherwise
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by Tloewald 12y ago
The article chooses as its starting point the ENTER key hitting the bottom of its travel -- how you got the url or whatever into the address bar doesn't really matter.
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by Tloewald 12y ago
How does this contradict what I said? Enlighten me? I said the theory -- by which I meant the non-null hypothesis -- is not endorsed by a low p value (indeed, this is a major point of the article). A low p-value says "hey they doesn&#x
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by Tloewald 12y ago
No there's a 5% chance the null hypothesis is correct. the probability your theory is correct is unknowable.
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by Tloewald 12y ago
While your opinion is of course paramount, you should try the Kindle Fire's browser. (I have the original Kindle Fire; newer models are probably better off -- that said, my original iPads still work fine and their browsers are perfectl
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by Tloewald 12y ago
UCSD Pascal allowed you to write compiled binaries on the Apple II -- that's very impressive technically when everyone else was either coding in BASIC or having to code in assembler. My point being that this was, in its way, far more i

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